Have you ever needed to type a degree symbol after a temperature? Or needed an accent mark over your e? Or wanted to type a foreign word with the proper letters that we don't have in our alphabet?

When you are typing in Word, inserting symbols is easy. There are a couple of ways you can do it:

• First, when typing the word, stop when you get to the point where you want to insert the symbol or special character
• Choose Insert from the file menu
• Then select Symbol.
• You will see this window pop up:

• When you click on the character you want, it will show up larger (as shown) so you can see if it's what you need.
• Then you choose Insert.
• Close the window and go on typing.

• Second, if there are characters that you use often, you can use the shortcut keys to type them.
• Look at the picture above and you will see the shortcut key hint at the bottom.
• If you want to type a º then you can do that by holding the Alt key in while typing 0186 on the number keypad to the right of your keyboard.